Michael Cohn, editor-in-chief of AccountingToday.com, has been covering business and technology for a variety of publications since 1985. Prior to joining Accounting Today and WebCPA, he worked for Red Herring, Internet World, Beyond Computing, Accounting Technology and PC Magazine, and freelanced for a variety of other business publications. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English, he studied accounting at the Wharton School of Business, and currently lives in New York City.
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Accounting firms in North America are taking the risk of losing business by making their customers wait on hold for more than 25 seconds, according to new research.
March 24 -
The Tax Court decided in favor of Amazon.com in an expensive transfer pricing dispute with the Internal Revenue Service involving intellectual property that the e-commerce giant assigned to a European subsidiary in Luxembourg.
March 24 -
The Internal Revenue Service has published its annual update on the depreciation and inclusion tables for owners and lessees of vehicles.
March 24 -
PricewaterhouseCoopers has settled a lawsuit with MF Global’s bankruptcy administrator for an undisclosed sum.
March 23 -
A French firm claims it is continuing to build its network in defiance of Andersen Tax's legal claims.
March 23 -
The online compendium now links to social media accounts and has a video walk-through.
March 23 -
KPMG said it has been cooperating with authorities on an investigation of a former official at New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority who has been accused of steering work to the Big Four firm.
March 22 -
More businesses are failing to remit payroll taxes, with 1.4 million employers owing approximately $45.6 billion in unpaid employment taxes, interest and penalties as of December 2015.
March 22 -
Companies and mutual funds might be able to use a more convenient version of Extensible Business Reporting Language in their financial filings, under a new rule proposed by the SEC.
March 22 -
The Internal Revenue Service has issued a revenue procedure permanently establishing a process for quickly resolving IRS audits after pilot-testing it in recent years.
March 22 -
The American Institute of CPAs wants lawmakers to reintroduce a bill to make various fixes to the tax laws.
March 22 -
Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., has introduced two pieces of bipartisan legislation to rebuild roads and bridges by encouraging U.S.-based multinational companies to repatriate the profits they hold abroad.
March 22 -
Albany CPA firm buys a finance, management and accounting services company.
March 21 -
A majority of CPA senior business executives would like to have the Affordable Care Act repealed and replaced, according to a new poll by the American Institute of CPAs.
March 21 -
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, want to make the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s actions against auditing firms and auditors more transparent.
March 21 -
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has released an “omnibus” statement providing guidance on a wide range of accounting and financial reporting issues that have been uncovered during the implementation and application of some of GASB’s earlier pronouncements for state and local governments.
March 20 -
The Internal Revenue Service is adding extra staff starting Tuesday to help tax professionals reinstate their e-Services accounts.
March 20 -
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has sanctioned a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditores Independentes in Brazil for audit failures involving Sara Lee Corporation.
March 20 -
St. Louis-based Top 100 firm RubinBrown is expanding into Las Vegas by combining with Stewart Archibald & Barney, the sixth largest accounting firm in Vegas, effective June 1, 2017.
March 20 -
CorpNet CEO Nellie Akalp discusses how accountants can advise their business clients on the proper entity to use for legal and tax purposes.
March 20
